My Least Favorite Subject: ME

Hi! I’m April. I live in a quite comfortable house here in Muntinlupa City at the bottom-most part of Metro Manila in the ever-so-populated country of the Philippines. I’m a teacher, and I’m very proud of being one. Who isn’t proud when your profession is one of the noblest profession in the world? I can’t say much about my work now, as I haven’t really started yet. Perhaps in a little while I might find the time to write about it, as I am very fond of writing the little and simple happenings in my life, which, by the way, may be simple but very meaningful.

I hate discussing myself, really, and I have absolutely no idea why I’m writing about myself now. I guess I just wanted to let the whole world know what kind of a person I am and what kinds of things or people I want. This would totally be a random post so if it gets into your nerves a little, or you feel as if I’m talking about the things you hate, then stop reading immediately. I don’t want to be the cause of your distress or depression or whatever negative feeling you might have or would have felt after reading just a few lines from this totally nonsense post.

What about me am I to write? Oh yeah. I’m a big fan of Japanese Animation. I have a couple of Anime stuffs on hand, and I bought them from just about everywhere. My favorites are my Rayearth and Cardcaptor Sakura Manga, which are all cheaply bought. (I think the most expensive manga I bought is Tsubasa, but it’s worth it because I love manga and I might sell them someday but the Rayearth and Sakura ones are staying!) I have a lot of Sakura stuffs, too! I love trading cards. I have X-Files trading cards which are kept inside the drawer. A friend of mine, Lynne, is a fan of the series and bought the cards for me on my birthday of 2007. I have other X-Files merchandise, too, like books and artbooks and magazines.

My room is filled with anime posters. I told you I can’t live without them. Oh, I haven’t told you that, have I? Sorry.

I like drawing. I think I own just about every art material there is. I left my Faber Castell coloured pencils in Oman but that’s okay because I have other coloured pencils here, which my sister bought for me, because she knows how these things make me happy. I buy Gospel Stickers from National Bookstore. I think they’re very nice. There are Gospel passages written in them. I guess that’s what makes them nice.

I have a Sailor Moon Plush that is so cute, I have it displayed beside me in my bed, so that when I wake up every morning, I see her cute, yellow hair, and her bright blue eye (singular, because the other eye is winked). She’s a treasure, too, so it may take me years before I decide to sell her or give her to the poor. Anyway, I have other plushies I don’t care about anymore that I can give to the poor.

I sing Lea Salonga’s songs all the time. It makes me feel so happy whenever I do. I love The Sound of Music. I have a Ltd. Edition Blu-ray/DVD boxset of it because my brother-in-law knows how much I love it, so he, with my sister, bought it for me for last Christmas. I really love it! I turn the key to the music box that plays “My Favorite Things” over and over and over again (except the part that says, “When the dog bites…”) and it goes on and on and on until I’m tired of turning it. Of course, I love other movies, too. I am a fan of Oldies and I have a couple of Greer Garson movies in my external drive that I got from the internet. I know piracy is bad but it’s just for entertainment and these movies are not all on DVD or video so I can’t watch it all the time before but now I can! (I’m beginning to sound like Christopher Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and believe it or not, I like typing this way!)

I have a crush on someone. He’s really nice. We have a lot in common, I think, that’s why I like him. I’ll see him soon, too, I think. What joy that brings!

I have four journals right now. I’m writing on each of them. Two are Prayer Journals, addressed to The Lord. He’s very sweet, He never gets tired of listening to me! That’s what I love about Him. He’s always there to listen. I wish I could be like Him, always listening, ready to help. Of course, I’m not the only person He listens to. The other journal is Walter. He’s sweet, too, and although I haven’t written to him lately, he understands. The last, and prettiest one, with all the flowers on each page, is Greer. She’s my guardian angel. And she’s been helping me with a lot of things, too! (I just don’t know how)

I have a lot of pens that I use in writing in my journals. I collect pens. It’s a pity whenever they run out of ink. I’d hate to throw them, so I keep most of the nice-looking empty ones in a pen holder inside my room.

I have 100 keychains and counting. I love collecting things. During my grade school days, I collected Cardcaptor Sakura trading cards which I buy from the store outside of school. I still have some of it today, along with my clow cards. I also collect Polly Pocket playsets. Some of the dolls included are missing now. Someone from my sister’s Debutante Party stole two of my playcase and I was completely pissed off, but I forgot about it until now. Anyway, at least I made some kleptomaniac happy. And that’s what counts, right? Making someone happy?

(I must end this entry here. I am completely not myself right now. I never write the way I did in this entry, and it’s a little frustrating, but yeah, to be perfectly honest, all the things I mentioned up there are true. That’s only, what, a portion of myself? I haven’t mentioned the dark secrets yet. Why should I? :P)

A Blog Entry on Mother’s Day

My mom knew very well that I love speaking in English, that is why it amazes me so much when she deliberately speaks English to all of us in our house, including our dog. I’ve never known anybody as great as mom. And in the future, I wish to be like her.

Mom was born Violeta Castro Ocampo on the suburbs of Tondo, Manila on April 22, 1950. Yes, that would make her 61 to this day! I won’t go through how she grew up as a kid or as a teenager, as you wouldn’t be very much interested in that. But I was, when she told me, and I’ve always dreamed of seeing their family portraits (which were all damaged or gone because of floods that went through that house) and looking awed as our aunts faces looked so young in it. My mom said she had all my grandma’s features, from an almost-as-porcelain-white skin to the way they smile or laugh. I guess if my grandma was alive right now, my mom would have done the same blog entry for her, too!

So, enough ramblings. My mom is the best mom in the world! (Nah, I’m being prejudiced) She can give you just about the best advice you can get in a troublesome situation and think after that, yeah, I guess she’s right (or she IS right, hot diggidy dog!). She’s even better speaking in English than I’ll ever be after two or so years. She’s absolutely amazing, I can’t even think of anything else to write.

One thing is for sure, though. I’ll ALWAYS love my mom, and I’ll never make her sad. I’ll be by her side when she needs me and I’m sure God meant for us to be mother-daughter because He knew we’re a perfect match (together with my siblings, of course!) HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY MAMA and to all the other moms, mama, nanay, nay, inang, nang, ina, naynay, mader, mudra, mamita, mamang, mother in the world! GOD BLESS YOU!